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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. drawn out or made longer spatially;
- Example: "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"
- Example: "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"
- Example: "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"
- Example: "a prolonged black line across the page"
[syn: elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged]

2. having notably more length than width; being long and slender;
- Example: "an elongate tail tapering to a point"
- Example: "the old man's gaunt and elongated frame"
[syn: elongate, elongated]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Elongate \E*lon"gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elongated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Elongating.] [LL. elongatus, p. p. of elongare to
   remove, to prolong; e + L. longus long. See Long, a., and
   cf. Eloign.]
   1. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a
      line.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To remove further off. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
      [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

elongated \elongated\ adj.
   1. having a length noticeably longer than the width.

   Syn: elongate.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

   2. rendered longer.

   Syn: lengthened.
        [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

elongated
    adj 1: drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated
           Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this
           year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate
           larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page"
           [syn: elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged]
    2: having notably more length than width; being long and
       slender; "an elongate tail tapering to a point"; "the old
       man's gaunt and elongated frame" [syn: elongate,
       elongated]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "elongated":
   dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drawn-out, elliptical, elongate,
   extended, lengthened, lengthy, oblong, oblongated, oblongitudinal,
   prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, rectangular, spun out,
   straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, strung out, taut,
   tense, tight